PIRSA:06070042  ( Flash Presentation , Windows Presentation , Windows Video File , MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): Steven Savitt

Abstract: It is often suggested that the special theory of relativity is incompatible with any notion of the passage of time. I shall try to show, following in the footsteps of Abner Shimony, that there is transience to be found in Minkowski spacetime, but this transience is local rather than global.

Date: 18/07/2006 - 5:15 pm

Collection: Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - 2006

URL: http://pirsa.org/06070042/  Share: